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Hi, I'm Rachel! I'm a professional writer and editor based in Brooklyn. The Rewm is where I share my work, my favorite things from around the web, and the things that keep me busy when I'm not at work.

The lazy Sunday social

June 23, 2013

Last week, I received a very beautiful and formal wedding invitation in the mail. I was filling out the RSVP card on Friday and saw that there was a line to write a request for a song to be played at the reception. The first thing that popped into my head was It feels inappropriate to write ‘Back That Ass Up’ on such a fancy invitation.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend! Mine has been pretty solid. I spent yesterday helping Eric pick out new glasses, which was quite a long ordeal but was actually really fun. (Fun fact: I was the eye wear editor when I worked at ELLE, so picking out glasses and sunglasses is totally my thang.) After our day of shopping, we came home and decided to quite drunk. It was a lovely Saturday!

As for reading material, I decided I’m going to start putting links to my non-Lover.ly freelance articles in my weekly link round-up each week. So today is the first day you have both my writing and other writing to read at your leisure.

5 comments

The unplugged wedding article was one I read a little bit before our wedding, and was one of the arguments I used to have our officiant make an announcement at the very start of our ceremony: we didn’t care if you took pictures, but we asked that folks stay out of the aisles – which surprisingly, worked.

The Toddler Pinterest page is just amazing; it’s all over my Facebook. Quinoa; Chevron; too perfect. I’m into appreciating those super-snarky-ironic-funny blogs/feeds/tweets right now (ala Possesionista) probably because I respect the tone since it’s VERY different from my style.

Also your cake article for APW was fantastic, hilarious and so full of great imagery. One for the favorites. And of course the cakes sound amazing.

Enjoyed your half-white wedding article! I just find this topic so interesting. I’m a middle class/upper middle class white girl married to a white guy from the same socioeconomic background. We are Ivy League educated living on a coast of the US. We are also active church-going Christians, which is pretty darn unusual in this demographic (most of our colleagues would consider themselves relatively or very unreligious). I have found that amongst this group of “educated” upwardly-mobile Christians (that sounds very snotty but I can’t think of a better way to describe it) there are tons and tons of interracial marriages. And not only Asian women and white men (again I know that sounds stereotype-y but I want to address it). At our church there are Asian men married to white women, black women married to white men, Hispanics married to whites, Indians married to whites – a lot of diversity. And I would say of my college church group friends, at least one third are in interracial marriages. My sister was married to a Filipino-Mexican-white guy. I have not seen any articles on this subset of people, but I really think there is something interesting there. Personally, I think it’s kind of a “we all are the same in Jesus’s eyes so we are all the same to each other” that makes it easier to cross whatever racial boundaries might otherwise exist. Just a topic I find fascinating and wanted to bring up.